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Title: Like Crazy (2011)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Anton Yelchin | ... | Jacob | |
| Felicity Jones | ... | Anna | |
| Jennifer Lawrence | ... | Sam | |
| Charlie Bewley | ... | Simon | |
| Alex Kingston | ... | Jackie | |
| Oliver Muirhead | ... | Bernard | |
| Finola Hughes | ... | Liz | |
| Chris Messina | ... | Mike Appletree | |
| Ben York Jones | ... | Ross | |
| Jamie Thomas King | ... | Elliot | |
| Amanda Carlin | ... | American Consulate Woman | |
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Barry Sabath | ... | Professor |
| Keeley Hazell | ... | Sabrina | |
| Kayla Barr Hengami | ... | College Roommate (as Kayla Barr) | |
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Jimmy Messer | ... | Delivery Man (as James Messer) |
Anna and Jacob fall instantly in love when they meet as students at an L.A. university. But Anna is British and when graduation approaches, Anna decides to stay and violate her student visa rather than returning to England. After a visit home, she is then unable to return to the United States. While fighting customs and immigration battles, Anna and Jacob must decide if their relationship is worth the distance and the hardship. Written by napierslogs
"I thought I understood it. But I didn't. I knew the smudgeness of it. The eagerness of it. The Idea of it. Of you and me." Anna (Felicity Jones)
Like Crazy is about the craziness of love without a Hollywood spin but with a conventional story that tells it like love is: unadorned, raw, a puzzle, and a disappointment. Director Drake Doremus handed the outline to actors Felicity Jones and Anton Yelchin and the rest was an organic script, albeit weaker than ones Brit director Mike Leigh develops with his cast.
Although the dialogue is spare and prosaic, the realism is spot on as the young couple struggles most of all with long distance. She is on visa from the UK to study in LA. He meets her at college; she overstays her visa time and is banned from returning to the US until a lengthy process of appeal is followed.
Those who have struggled with that distance demon know how right the artists get the frustrations and changes that plague those who challenge cupid across the pond over too long a time.
Although many traditional moviegoers will not like the ending, they can be comforted that it is, alas, only too true. If nothing else, Like Crazy is a textbook study of long distance love that should be a caution before young lovers attempt the navigation.